ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

In this retrospective of Bettina Forget's work, the artist has selected pairs of paintings from her various series dating from 2000 - 2007.

Weather Diaries
Weather logs are transformed into strips of colours, each colour corresponding to the changing weather of the day.

Helios Series
Our Sun is the central thematic of this series, featuring eclipses, transits, and solar flares.

We are Stardust
Aviator Amelia Earhart symbolizes our ephemeral connection to the stars.

Neutron Star Series
Scientific diagrams taken from astrophysical papers are transformed into paintings.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Bettina Forget is a visual artist living and working in Montreal, Quebec. Born in Germany, she has studied art at Central St-Martins School of Art in London, England and at Curtin University in Perth, Australia and Singapore.
Bettina's work deals with the subjects of astronomy and meteorology, establishing a link between art and science. Pushing traditional painting techniques to their limits, she subjects her canvases to being frozen into ice, pummeled by rain and scorched by fire. She also invented a technique of cutting holes into stretched canvas and suspending smaller pieces of canvas in the voids, therefore turning paintings into three-dimensional objects.
Bettina is member and Director of Exhibitions of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA) and is on the board of directors of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) Montreal Centre.

FOR MORE INFO
go to the artist's website at
www.bettinaforget.com

Exhibition Dates:
November 23 - December 4, 2007